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Title: Nantucket's heavenly legacy:


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Nantucket's heavenly legacy
  • Maria Mitchell discovers a comet

2
Nineteenth Century Nantucket
  • Cobblestone streets, brick mansions
  • Whaling capital of the world
  • Stately homes with rooftop lookouts

3
A Place in the History of Astronomy
  • Familiar tools of navigation
  • Sextant
  • Telescope
  • Maria Mitchell
  • Born 1818
  • By age 12
  • Familiar with these tools
  • Passionate sky-watcher

4
Fateful Night Oct. 1, 1847
  • Rooftop telescope
  • A fuzzy blob above the North Star
  • The Nantucket comet
  • First comet found by U.S. citizen
  • First comet found by a woman

5
Accolades and Awards
  • King of Denmark
  • Gold medal
  • Smithsonian
  • 100 prize
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • First woman elected
  • Vassar College, 1865
  • First female astronomy professor in the U.S.

6
Other Notable Activities
  • Solar eclipses
  • Lead expeditions
  • Fund-raising
  • Vassar Observatory
  • Observation
  • Great Comet of 1882
  • Womens rights
  • Salary equal to younger male professors

7
Commemorating Maria Mitchell
  • Preserved childhood home
  • Maria Mitchell Association
  • Encourages natural sciences
  • Summer student internships
  • Promising students conduct experiments
  • Astronomy, biology, earth science
  • On Nantucket Island

8
Original telescope she used
  • The small telescope that Mitchell used to
    discover the Nantucket comet is now mounted in
    her childhood home on Vestal Street, across from
    the headquarters of the Maria Mitchell
    Association
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